Connecticut · Private foundation
Zia Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $358k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,827
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Zia Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $354k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $200k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $198k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $153k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $124k | 74% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $22k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $18k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $18k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity College | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lehigh University | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Fay School Inc | $25,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Kids in Crisis Inc | $25,298 | 5 | 0% |
| Greens Farms Academy Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ethel Walker School Inc | $20,292 | 5 | 0% |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($415k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zia Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Garden Homes Fund · Malkin Fund Inc · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Zia Charitable Foundation
- How much does Zia Charitable Foundation give?
- Zia Charitable Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $357,957 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Zia Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (13%), Animals (12%).
- Who are Zia Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trinity College ($115k), Lehigh University ($60k), Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc ($40k).
- Does Zia Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zia Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Zia Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Near and Far Association Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Zia Charitable Foundation based?
- Zia Charitable Foundation is based in CT.
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